Bibliography Books

Children and Their Books

The most vital educational problem will always be how to make the best use of the child's earlier years, not only for the reason that in them many receive their entire school training, but also becaus..

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three is a travel book written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, an English bibliographer, born in Calcutta to Thomas Di..

Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods

John Willis Clark

A library may be considered from two very different points of view: as a workshop, or as a Museum. The former commends itself to the practical turn of mind characteristic of the present day; common se..

Areopagitica

John Milton

A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Or..

On The Art of Reading

Arthur Quiller-Couch

The following twelve lectures have this much in common with a previous twelve published in 1916 under the title "On the Art of Writing"—they form no compact treatise but present their central idea as ..

A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales

Jonathan Nield

A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales is a bibliographical work by Jonathan Nield.Author's Introduction:It is not proposed, in these preliminary remarks, to sketch in detail the origin ..

The Delicious Vice

Young Ewing Allison

The Delicious Vice is a criticism work written by Young Ewing Allison, an American writer and newspaper editor. Born in Henderson, Kentucky, Allison was partially deaf from an early age and becam..

How to plan a library building for library work

Charles C. Soule

On being asked to write on “Library Architecture” for this series I hesitated, knowing little about the subject except as applied to the insides of libraries. But on this limited branch I have had som..